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Chapter 21:  Optimizing and Debugging Your Code

2.

In the dialog box that appears, select any of the options.

For more information, click the Help button in the dialog box.

3.

Click OK.

Depending on the size of your document and the number of options selected, it may take 
several seconds to complete the cleanup.

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Verifying that tags and braces are 
balanced

You can check to make sure the tags, parentheses (( )), braces ({ }), and square brackets ([ ]) in 
your page are balanced. Balanced means that every opening tag, parenthesis, brace, or bracket 
has a corresponding closing one, and vice versa. 

To check for balanced tags:

1.

Open the document in Code view.

2.

Place the insertion point in the nested code you want to check.

3.

Select Edit > Select Parent Tag. 

The enclosing matching tags (and their contents) are selected in your code. If you keep 
selecting Edit > Select Parent Tag, and your tags are balanced, eventually Dreamweaver 
will select the outermost 

html

 and 

/html

 tags.

To check for balanced parentheses, braces, or square brackets:

1.

Open the document in Code view.

2.

Place the insertion point in the code you want to check.

3.

Select Edit > Balance Braces. 

All of the code between the enclosing parentheses, braces, or square brackets is selected. 
Choosing Edit > Balance Braces again selects all of the code inside the parentheses, braces, 
or square brackets that enclose the new selection.